Villalobos receives Player of the Week honor

Senior guard Adilene Villalobos, from Tucson, Ariz., has been named the Midwest Collegiate Conference Women?s Basketball Player of the Week, as announced by the MCC on Monday.

Villalobos posted a pair of strong performances off the bench last week as IWC split a pair of games at the La Quinta Stritch Holiday Classic hosted by Cardinal Stritch (Wis.) University on Dec. 19 and 20.

She averaged 13.5 points and three rebounds per game, shooting 64.3 percent from the field and 60 percent from three-point range in being named to the all-tournament team for the two-day invite.

The senior scored a career high 16 points in Wesleyan?s 53-52 win over the University of St. Francis (Ill.) last Monday, Dec. 19, hitting four three-pointers to set another career high in that category. She also added 11 points and four rebounds, including two three-pointers in the Tigers? loss to No. 18 ranked Cardinal Stritch on Tuesday, and finished shooting better than 60 percent in both games.

Villalobos has picked up her scoring recently and now ranks third on the team with 7.5 points per game for the Tigers, who have a season record of 3-7.

She is also averaging 3.6 rebounds per game and is shooting 40.4 percent from the field and 25.7 percent from three-point range.

IWC returns to the court Friday when it faces Tabor (Kan.) College as part of the two-day Tabor Holiday Basketball Classic in Hillsboro, Kan., at 6 p.m. The Tigers also will play Saturday on New Year?s Eve against Sterling (Kan.) College at 1 p.m.